Full-Time

Network Engineer – Backbone at xAI

Company xAI
Location Palo Alto, CA
Salary $180,000 - $440,000 USD
How You'll Work onsite
Level senior
Sector Technology
Posted Posted 0 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced engineer to design, develop, deploy and operate our global backbone infrastructure. This role requires expertise in backbone network hardware and protocols, routing experience, and proficiency in Python scripting.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy and operate our global backbone infrastructure
  • Partner with internal teams on requirements and leverage our own systems for insights
  • Automate customer impact mitigations and remove repetitive engineering cycles using Python and Ansible

Requirements

  • 10+ years working on backbone network hardware and protocols (MPLS RSVP TE++) in a large/hyper scale environment
  • 10+ years of routing experience (BGP, IS-IS) within backbones, peering and transit areas with deep skills in traffic engineering
  • 5+ years experience with Python scripting and the ability to automate repetitive tasks for deployments and break/fix
  • 5+ years experience managing and troubleshooting cloud VPCs and connected network hardware
  • Experience with Juniper, Cisco and Arista hardware
  • Experience with AWS, GCP and OCI clouds
  • Experience capacity planning on large networks with minimal customer input
  • Proven track record in on-call rotations and incident response in high-stakes environments

Benefits

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at X, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

Annual Base Salary

$180,000 – $440,000 USD

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